BEF Saved in Epic Dunkerque Stand Amid Air War Toll
London reports that over four fifths of the British Expeditionary Force has been rescued from Flanders in a delaying epic. Anthony Eden praises BEF courage as RAF claims new German bomber losses at Dunkerque. Britain mobilizes for invasion defense and expands farming to bolster food supply.
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London
Flanders
Anthony Fren
Britain
BEF
Empire
United States
Norfolk County
Holland
Mark Eden
B.ef
Royal Air Force
Dunkerque
English Channel
Air Ministry
Ministry
B.E.F
Eden
Fden
Home Guard
Germany
England
Denmark
Robert
Hudson
Hell
Wales
Dunkirk Troops toiling and ferries shuttle evacuees
Troops pressed on at Dunkirk as shells ripped the beach and sailors ferried craft across the fire swept channel. Exhausted crews rested briefly before relays of fresh men took their places while British factories kept forging weapons for defense and reequipping forces withdrawn from Flanders.
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Shelltorn
Dunkerque
Navy
Flanders
Funeral for Childress Pioneer Conducted
Funeral services were held Saturday for Guy Norris Sr., 59, a Childress pioneer, who died at his home Friday. Burial followed at the local cemetery after services at the family residence led by Rev. Frank Travis. Survivors include his wife four sons Jerry Childress Guy Jr Bowie Bill El Campo and Rem bert Great Neck N Y and three daughters Mrs Cecil Pryor Chil dress Mrs R E Jones Guymon Okla and Mrs Gordon Rogers Great Neck N Y.
Striking Shipbuilders Back at Warship Work
At Kearny New Jersey the Federation of Shipyard workers ends a three day walkout affecting six US warships. About eight thousand strikers voted to return to work to avoid obstructing the national defense program. The first shift resumes at midnight with others to follow in the morning.
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Kearny
N. J
Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
United States
John Green
Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America
CSO
Green
Childress Damage Suit Set Today
The $60 000 damage suit of the heirs of C E Burton and M W Griggs of Childress against Fort Worth and Denver railway opens Monday in the summer term of district court. The suit stems from the death of the two local trainmen when a Denver Northern freight engine plunged from a 60 foot bridge into flood waters of the Salt Fork of Red River in June 1938.
Compulsory Army Training Seen in Congress Debate
Washington June 2 Compulsory military training for all physically fit American youths was predicted as likely if Germany wins the war. House members urged immediate expansion of the regular army to 500000 and favored universal training with a year of service for about 750000 youths reaching service age annually.
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Germany
Roosevelt
Congress
May
Kentucky
House Military Committee
United States
Smith
Connecticut
Army
Navy
Old Age Policy Offers Up To 50 Monthly For Seniors 65 to 85
The Postal Life and Casualty Ins Co offers a new older age policy for men and women aged 65 to 85. It pays up to 500 for death, up to 50 a month for disability, and 25 a month for hospital care, all for 3.65 a year. No medical exam, no agents, 10 days free inspection, write with details.
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Postal Life & Casualty Insurance Co
Postal Life Building
Kansas City
Postal
Legionnaires Protest Browder Radio Propaganda
The American Legion post executive committee in Mineral Wells sent a telegraphic protest to President Roosevelt over Earl Browder using radio for alleged fifth column and Communist propaganda.
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Mineral Wells
The
American Legion Post
Roosevelt
Earl Browder
Trade Notice Gustine Tex Indian Arrowheads
Indians were named as the best customers of Mack Matthews maker of Indian arrowheads and they resell them to tourists in Gustine Texas.
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Gustine
Tex
Mack Matthews
Amarillo Boy Scouts Begin Camp For Week
Fifty Boy Scouts and leaders start a week at Camp Ceta with Llano Estacado Council. The program emphasizes patriotism scoutcraft handicraft water activities safety nature study and hiking under Scout Executive W J Hiatt and staff including Chester Dunlap Ross Redding Ned Weills Price John Cheatham.
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Camp Ceta
Llano Estacado
W. J. Hiatt
Chester Dunlap
Ross Redding
Ned Weills
Cook Price
John Cheatham
Sugar City Gazette Highlights Crowley Rain Shortfall
Sugar City report notes Crowley County received only a small rain total, described as a couple of bucks short in the west end, per the Sugar City Gazette headline.
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Sugar City
Colo
Crowley County
West End
David F. Cook Dies. Funeral Set in Midlothian
David F. Cook 79 of Amarillo died Saturday night. His body was moved to Midlothian for burial at 11 this morning. He was a barber and Methodist. Survivors include his widow and two half sisters. Residence listed as 1100 Pierce Street.
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David Cook
Midlothian
David F. Cook
Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home
Cook
Methodist Church
Pierce Street
David Jasper Franks Funeral Today at Griggs Chapel
Services will be held at 2 o clock this afternoon at the Griggs chapel for Davis Jasper Franks 58 year old Amarillo man who died Friday Rev H C Smith pastor of the San Jacinto Methodist Church will officiate and burial will be in Llano Cemetery Franks was a nightwatchman and had lived in Amarillo 36 years.
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Griggs Chapel
Davis Jasper Franks
Amarillian
H C. Smith
San Jacinto Methodist Church
Llano
Franks
Amarillo
Grocer Confirms Customer Wanted Pork and Bean Seed
In Missouri, grocer Fenton Williams who sells garden seeds says a customer asked for an order of pork and bean seed in a humorous but earnest way.
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Crane
Fenton Williams
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